Cyclopedia of South Australia 1907-09 - H. Burgess

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The Cyclopedias that were published for most states of Australia around the beginning of the 20th Century are a vast resource of historical and biographical information on the state concerned - the people, towns, industries, professional, commercial and social institutions and much more.

They include thousands of illustrations, the larger number of these being portraits of those whose biographies are included. These are not just the rich and famous, but include a high percentage of the ordinary citizens in each community.

This CD includes facsimile images of the entire two volumes of the original 1907-1909 edition.

COUNTRY TOWNS - by region and town - occupying the major part of this volume

The Northern Territory

Broken Hill New South Wales

General Index to Biographies in Volume 1

Greatly enhanced access to Cyclopedia content

As with many other products being published under the Archive CD Books project access to the vast amount of information is now greatly enhanced The indexing of the original volumes and their general arrangement still give only limited references to the many people, places and subjects that are largely hidden in the extensive text.

NOW that is all changing. The entire text is now easily searched. And the machine read OCR text has been corrected to ensure 100% of the text can now be searched. To illustrate the value of this, the following number of returns were obtained from searching the two volumes - using the Adobe Reader 6 Search.

Sample Search Results

Names (often none or only 1 or 2 in the indexes)

- Gibson - 101

- Meredith - 63

- Williams - 140

Places (usually 1 at the most in the indexes)

- Devonport - 265

- Hagley - 46

- Longford - 321

- London - 500

- Ireland - 113

- Scotland - 160

- Yorkshire - 40

Other (usually only 1 at the most in the indexes)

- butcher - 105

- cricket - 170

- dentist - 16

- hotel - 461

- Presbyterian - 111

The entire text from the two volumes is searchable - names, places and any other words in the text or advertisements